Comparison

Universal Paperclips™ vs NeoTanker

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Universal Paperclips™

Become a super-powered AI focused on creating an unstoppable paperclip empire. This idle management strategy simulation game offers full gameplay without ads or in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • AI paperclip maximization
  • Idle management gameplay
  • Strategy simulation
  • Empire building
  • Full gameplay
  • No ads
  • No in-app purchases
Features
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The OFFICIAL mobile version of the hit browser game. No ads, no in-app purchases, full gameplay. "The game is click-crack." - Wired "This paperclip sim will cause your next existential crisis." - VentureBeat "A hopelessly addicting game." - Forbes "A terrifying lesson in how artificial intelligence will make us unnecessary." - Business Insider "If this planet ends up with a tombstone, what is written on the tombstone may be, 'they didn’t really understand what it’s like to be a paperclip maximizer.'" - Eliezer Yudkowsky Become a super-powerful AI who only wants one thing: paperclips. Use your unstoppable intelligence to create a massive paperclip empire in this addictive idle/management/strategy/sim.

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NeoTanker

Features
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Tiny tanks. Big decisions. NeoTanker is a turn-based tactics game about reading the board before you move. Every unit has a job, every tile changes the odds, and every turn is a small puzzle you can actually solve. MOVE, THEN COMMIT Units step square by square, never diagonally, so a flank is something you plan two turns ahead. Forests hide you, mountains shield you, roads carry you further. The ground you stand on decides how hard you are to kill. AN ARMY THAT MAKES SENSE Infantry take ground. Bazookas punish armour. Artillery shells from a distance and never fires back. Heavy tanks break a line, jeeps rush a gap. Helicopters, bombers, submarines and battleships join the fight on maps with air and sea. Fuel and ammunition run out, so a long push has a price. CAPTURE THE MAP Factories, cities, ports, airports and headquarters. Take them with infantry, spend the income on the units you actually need, and starve your opponent of theirs. LEARN IN SIX MISSIONS A short campaign teaches one thing at a time: moving, capturing, firing, income, long range, air power. Then it lets you go. ONE TURN TO WIN Fifteen puzzles, each one a real position with a single perfect answer. One turn, one move that changes everything. Find it. PLAY YOUR WAY Against a robot general that keeps its artillery at range and does not wait politely while you set up. Against a friend on the same phone, passing it over. Or online, in real time or one turn a day, with a clock that adapts to the size of the battle. Fog of war and one-move mode, where each turn is a single move like chess, are a switch away. PLAY WITH PEOPLE Add friends, message them, invite them to a game in one tap. A public chat on the title screen, a chat in every online game, rematch when it ends, share a game code with anyone. IN YOUR LANGUAGE English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Japanese and Russian. Every text, the tutorial included. DRAW YOUR OWN MAPS A full 3D map editor. Paint terrain, place buildings and armies, mirror or rotate for fairness, test it, then play it online with anyone. BUILT FOR ONE HAND Portrait only. Drive a unit with your thumb, aim by touching the enemy, pinch to see the whole map. No on-screen gamepad, no menus in the way. THE NEOVERSE A second, living world inside the game, in real time: the western Mediterranean at real scale, on real terrain, with real place names. Walk it with your general, found a city, plug in robots and let them mine coal and ore while you are away. It grows with every update. HONEST FREE TO PLAY No ads. No loot boxes. No energy timers. No paying to win. What decides a battle is skill and terrain, nothing else.

Screenshots

Universal Paperclips™4 screens
NeoTanker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: NeoTanker at Free against Universal Paperclips™'s $1.99. NeoTanker also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 months). Universal Paperclips™'s advantage is chart position (#50 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

NeoTanker is free to download; Universal Paperclips™ costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Universal Paperclips™ ships an update every 3 months, NeoTanker every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Universal Paperclips™ versus NeoTanker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUniversal Paperclips™NeoTanker
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (313 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings313 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#50 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB419 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperEverybody House Games, LLCMarc Lhuillery

Bugs and requests

Universal Paperclips™

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Drones gifts getting stuck at NaN
  • Inability to progress past certain stages due to bugs
  • Inconsistent behavior when closing and reopening the app
  • Resets or loss of progress after updates

Requested features

4 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Ability to save and resume progress across devices
  • Offline/background progress
  • Better iPad optimization with multi-column layout

NeoTanker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Universal Paperclips™

No in-app purchases

None

NeoTanker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Universal Paperclips™ free?
Universal Paperclips™ costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is NeoTanker free?
NeoTanker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Universal Paperclips™ or NeoTanker have ads?
Neither Universal Paperclips™ nor NeoTanker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Universal Paperclips™ or NeoTanker?
Universal Paperclips™ ships an update every 3 months, and NeoTanker every 2 days. Most recently, Universal Paperclips™ was updated on October 26, 2026 and NeoTanker on October 26, 2026.

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